Latest West Virginia Headlines
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WV Commissioner Wants Input on What Coverages Should Be on Surplus Lines List
Aug 28 2025 // The West Virginia Office of the Insurance Commissioner is aking for input on what coverages and classes should be on the surplus lines export list. In keeping with state law, agents and brokers hoping to place types of...
West Virginia Lags Behind in Sites for New Businesses, but That Is Changing
Aug 27 2025 // On the Ohio River in Wood County, officials are clearing hurdles to prepare sites for new businesses. Two locations, 70 acres of farmland and a sprawling industrial park, are set to become suitable for development, thanks...
West Virginia Will Finally Study How to Protect Communities After 2016 Floods
Aug 15 2025 // Nearly a decade after the deadly 2016 floods, West Virginia officials are moving forward with a study to look at flood mitigation measures across the Kanawha River Basin. Last month, Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that...
Knife-Wielding Man Shot by Police in West Virginia Emergency Room
Aug 11 2025 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Police in West Virginia shot and killed a knife-wielding man in a hospital emergency room after he attacked an employee early Friday, authorities said. The shooting occurred around 1:45 a.m. at...
Residents Discover WV Lawmakers Eliminated Local Authority Over Data Centers
Aug 6 2025 // In late March, Pamela Moe was at her dining room table, skimming the local paper when something caught her eye. A legal notice, by a company she had never heard of, for a facility near the city of Thomas. Curious, Moe...
Flash Flooding Again Hits West Virginia Areas Trying to Clean Up from Deluge
Jun 27 2025 // A northern West Virginia region still cleaning up from flash flooding less than two weeks ago was hit with torrential rains that sent creeks over their banks again Thursday night. A flash flood warning was issued for the...
Flash Flooding Kills 5 in West Virginia as Rescue Teams Search for Missing
Jun 16 2025 // Flash flooding caused by torrential rains killed five people in northern West Virginia and rescue crews were searching for three other people who were missing Sunday as authorities assessed damage to roads, bridges,...
Former WV Fire Official Sentenced to 33 Months for Arson, Insurance Fraud
May 30 2025 // A former West Virginia volunteer fire official who pleaded guilty to fraud after burning down his home and misusing the fire department’s credit card has been sentenced to 33 months in prison. Donald A. Ennis, 44, of...
Nurse Showed COVID Was Work-Contracted, West Virginia Supreme Court Rules
May 29 2025 // The West Virginia Supreme Court has ruled 3-2 that a prison nurse is entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for her COVID-19 disease because she provided sufficient evidence that she contracted it in her...
Judge Orders Restoration of Health Program for West Virginia Coal Miners
May 16 2025 // A judge on Tuesday ordered the restoration of a health monitoring program for coal miners in West Virginia and rescinded layoffs the federal government implemented in a unit of a small U.S. health agency. U.S. District...
WV Commissioner Posts Guidelines on Insurers’ Use of Aerial Images
Apr 28 2025 // After receiving multiple inquiries about the use of aerial images in property insurance nonrenewals, West Virginia’s insurance commissioner has posted guidelines for insurers’ use of the technology. In a...
Tornadoes Kill 2, Injure 3 in East Tennessee, With Flooding in WV, Kentucky
Feb 10 2025 // WARTBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Two tornadoes moved through eastern Tennessee, leaving a mother and daughter dead and injuring three other people, officials said Friday. A mother and daughter from the same household were killed...
New West Virginia Governor Axes DEI and Enacts Vaccine Exemptions on Day One
Jan 16 2025 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Republican Gov. Patrick Morrisey issued a slew of aggressive executive orders on his first full day as West Virginia’s chief executive Tuesday, including one enabling families to receive...
Ex-West Virginia School System Official Charged With Stealing $3.4 Million
Dec 17 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former maintenance director of a southern West Virginia county school system was charged in a scheme to steal about $3.4 million from a local board of education. Michael David Barker appeared...
Fourth Coal Miner This Year Killed in West Virginia
Sep 9 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A coal miner was killed on the job in West Virginia on Friday night, Gov. Jim Justice said. The Republican governor said Gary Chapman, 33, of South Williamson, Kentucky, died after being injured...
Inadequate Inspections and Oversight Cited in Fatal WV Helicopter Crash
Aug 29 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Inadequate inspections by an operator and a lack of oversight by the Federal Aviation Administration were partly to blame for the crash of a Vietnam-era tourist helicopter that killed six people...
Union Rep Says WV Governor Still Late on Greenbrier Bills
Aug 26 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice’s family is millions of dollars behind on payments to employees’ health insurance fund at their financially beleaguered hotel, putting workers’...
WV Volunteer Fire Official Pleads to Insurance Fraud After Burning Down His Home
Aug 23 2024 // A former West Virginia volunteer fire official is awaiting sentencing after he admitted to setting fire to his home, filing an insurance claim, and using the fire department’s credit card for personal gain. Donald A....
Cyber Risk: West Virginia OIC Plans to Dispose of Older Workers’ Comp Files
Aug 22 2024 // The West Virginia insurance commissioner’s office has adopted a new policy: It will soon begin destroying workers’ compensation claim files that are 10 years old or older. “Given increasing cybersecurity...
WV Governor Scrambles to Halt Foreclosure of His Greenbrier Hotel
Aug 22 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice, deep in the middle of a U.S. Senate race, is also in a mad-dash legal fight to keep a historic West Virginia hotel at his luxury resort before it’s auctioned...
